2016 web mapping track: colorado oil & gas wells over time by will carter

Will CarterOriginally from Chicago, Will and his wife, Lori, moved to Denver six years ago. Mainly by exploring and hiking many mountain trails and towns west of the city, he quickly discovered the beauty in the high country. Further exploration revealed the Front Range’s dependence on the mountain areas, from our water to other natural resources. From this knowledge came a shift in career focus to GIS, to find meaningful work in tune with the idea of preserving the resources, wildlife and beauty that surrounds us in Colorado.

Will is currently studying GIS at the FRCC and expects to complete this fall. Since spring, he has been working on a data collection and digitization project with Rocky Mountain Wild and the Trust for Public Land. The project is focused on collection and digitization of geospatial city park data across the United States based on local government sources.

This is (almost) the LAST presentation of the

conference

Colorado Oil & Gas Wells Over Time

Will CarterGIS in the Rockies 2016

Web Mapping

Let’s take a look at the web map

The MapTemporal resolution

What new questions arise from the map?

Greeley gets surrounded 2000-present

What is happening with the many wells near CR 38?

Well types? What are the target resources?

The DataColorado Oil And Gas

Conservation Commission

Data contains operator, well name, spud date, geometry

Missing well end date

Missing well type

Carto/CartoDBcarto.com

Dataset in the cloud

Growing world wide spatial data library

CartoCSS for symbology

Map data was driven from free account

The CodeAll javascript

Leaflet - powerful, simple, fast, well documented

Power of PostgreSQL, very easy to drive a dynamic map

Oil and Gas dataset has 56k rows

The ReactionDramatic/questionable symbology with the red burn.

Absolutely No CRED / WildEarth Guardians made a facebook post

Improvements

How long do wells actually last?

Colorado Public Radio story

Map in the story, driven by an open CartoDB dataset.

Basin based well lifespan data availableCould I join my dataset to this basin dataset to get an estimated year when the well retires and then remove those wells from the map? Yes!

Mind. Blown.

The QueryST_Within, nifty.

The difference, cumulative vs. removed wellsLess dramatic, more

accurate.

Torque

CartoDB and CartoCSS

Contact

Blog: gameofgis.comwill@rockymountainwild.org

@zippyferguson

Protecting wild lands for wildlife